US Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald rested the prosecution's case Thursday in the trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby . As the prosecution's final witness, Tim Russert , Washington bureau chief for NBC News, testified Wednesday that he was unaware of former undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity until reading Robert D. Novak's July 14, 2003 [...]

Italy's Cabinet approved a controversial proposal Thursday that would give legal rights to unmarried heterosexual and same-sex couples . The proposal, which has been harshly criticized by the Italian justice minister and the top Italian bishop , would give unmarried couples combined medical insurance, the right to visit their partner in prisons or hospitals, inheritance [...]

Charges against Omar Khadr under the Military Commissions Act, US Department of Defense Office of Military Commissions, February 2, 2007. Read the full text of the charge notice, the charge sheet, and the full charges . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Charges against David Hicks under the Military Commissions Act, US Department of Defense Office of Military Commissions, February 2, 2007. Read the full text of the charge notice, the charge sheet, and the full charges . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Charges against Salem Hamdan under the Military Commissions Act, US Department of Defense Office of Military Commissions, February 2, 2007. Read the full text of the charge notice, the charge sheet, and the full charges . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

A French judge has charged two police officers connected to a case that sparked three weeks of rioting outside Paris and in other parts of France in 2005. The officers were charged Wednesday with “non-assistance to people in danger”, and face up to 5 years in prison and up to a $97,400 fine for their [...]

Affaire Enciu et Lega c. Roumanie, European Court of Human Rights, February 8, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Former Baathist military operations officer Rashid Hussein Mohammed claimed during his genocide trial before the Iraqi High Tribunal Thursday that he was just defending his country against Iran during the Anfal campaign of the late 1980s, and called for US military commanders to be tried for their crimes in the current Iraq war. Mohammed questioned [...]

The prosecutor in the genocide case against former Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Miriam announced Thursday that he is appealing last month’s sentence of life imprisonment , and will again push for the death penalty. Of the three sentencing judges, one opted for the death penalty, while the other two felt life sentences were more appropriate [...]

Lawyers for the three recently re-charged Guantanamo detainees renewed their condemnation of new military commission rules Thursday, telling the Associated Press that the tight deadlines established by the rules will prevent extended investigation into the reliability of the evidence brought against their clients. Navy lawyer Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift , appointed to defend Yemeni Salim [...]